The speculations of the American author

The speculations of the American author

The speculations of the American author

Mr. Rarey’s Pamphlet. Introduction.

Mr. Rarey’s American Pamphlet would make about fifty pages of this type, if given in full; but, in revising my Illustrated Edition, I have decided on omitting six pages of Introduction, which, copied from Mr. Rollo Springfield, an American author, do not contain any reliable facts or useful inferences.

The speculations of the American author, as to the early history of the horse, are written without sufficient information. So far from the polished Greeks having, as he states, ridden without bridles, we have the best authority in the frieze of the Parthenon for knowing that, although they rode barebacked on their compact cobby ponies, they used reins and handled them skilfully and elegantly.